England "death count review" reduces UK COVID-19 toll by 5,000

[Mark Crispin Miller]

They had to do it, as the UK's toll was out-of-whack with the tolls declares by other European countries, which was raising inconvenient questions. (ALL such numbers are, for many reasons, bogus.)

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53722711

[Mark Crispin Miller]

From Dick Atlee:

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53722711

This is worse than you imply, Mark. I'm laughing incredulously. What it says is:

"In England, there was no time limit. Someone who recovered from Covid-19
in March and died in a car crash in July would have been counted as a
coronavirus death.Now the UK's four chief medical officers have decided to use a single, consistent measure and publish the number of deaths that occurred within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test confirmed in a lab, every day."

In plain text: Now, in the improved system, if someone recovered from
Covid-19 in March and died in a car crash in April, they will still be
counted as a Covid death. I thought the BBC was at least subtle in their
machinations. This is flat-out, in-your-face ridiculous.